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Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies

'Two Distant Strangers' and 'If Anything Happens I Love You' collect Academy Awards. Two Netflix shorts that address gun violence were honored Sunday at the Oscars. If Anything Happens I Love You -- which follows two parents grieving the loss of their child in a school shooting -- won the Oscar for best animated short, while Two Distant Strangers collected the Academy Award for a live-action short. Writer/director Travon Free and director Martin Desmond Roe accepted the award for Two Distant Strangers, which addresses the topic with the story of a Black man who is in a time loop in which h...

Subscribe Could what transpired in Sunday night’s Academy Awards be more lasting? In an unfamiliar pandemic staging of Hollywood’s most familiar awards ceremony, Oscar voters honored a diverse group of actors and filmmakers. And the evening’s best picture winner, “Nomadland,” fittingly tells the story of the disenfranchised trying to keep a toehold in society. Just a year after just one non-white performer was nominated for an acting trophy, two of the four acting winners were people of color: Daniel Kuluuya was named best supporting actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah�...

Director Pete Docter and producer Dana Murray accepted the Best Animated Feature award, with Docter thanking “music teachers and art teachers everywhere” for doing the real-life work of Soul protagonist Joe (Jamie Foxx). “This film started as a love letter to jazz, but we had no idea how much jazz would teach us about life,” Docter said. “…I wish we could follow the wish of jazz musicians: that, wherever we are, whatever we have, we could turn it into something beautiful.” Nominated in three categories, Soul ended up winning in two, also earning the Oscar for Best Original Sco...

Contenders like Nomadland, The Father, Minari, Promising Young Woman are competing for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Picture. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and the major studios are all in the mix. Who took home the most Oscars? Here’s the full list.